To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut in America (Philip Morin Freneau Poems)
FROM Persian looms the silk he woveNo Weaver meant should trail aboveThe surface of the earth we tread,To deck the ...
Matter Poems (167 Poems)
On Burning Some Old Letters (James Russell Lowell Poems)
With what odorous woods and spicesSpared for royal sacrifices,With what costly gums seld-seen,Hoarded to embalm a queen,With what frankincense and ...
Since I’ve Been In Jail (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
Since I've been in jailthe world has turned around the sun ten timesAnd if you ask the earth, it will ...
Keeping His First Wife Now (Henry Lawson Poems)
IT'S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds, And a splice in the knot untied-The sanctity of the marriage tie Is growing ...
Fame (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Dust of the desert are thy walls And temple-towers, O Babylon!O'er crumbled halls the lizard crawls, And serpents bask in blaze of ...
All Things Are Second-Handed (Jared Barhite Poems)
"There's no new thing under the sun," Said the ancient priest and preacher; What seems now new is only done To quicken some ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. V. The Workwoman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
A Poem AAbout Intelligence For My Brothers And Sisters (June Jordan Poems)
A few years back and they told me Blackmeans a hole where other folksgot brain/it was like the cells in ...
Autumn: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Extinguish'd is the last lone star,The shadows of night are gone,And lo! in the east, day's golden carIs fill'd by ...
Labyrinth As The Erasure Of Cries Heard Once Within It Or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded. ‘Later) (Larry Levis Poems)
-for John Berryrnan-Is dog eat dog out dere'-Big Business, Mr. Bones.You know what I'm doing now? I'm watching the CompletePoems ...
Winter Field (Kihachi Ozaki Poems)
Now, over the field,evening hangs suspended like a gigantic harp.Frost binds the ridges solemnly severed furrow from furrow;the long harp-sound ...
A Last Word (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
OH, for some cup of consummating might,Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!A wine of darkness, that with death ...
To Alexander Meiklejohn (John Henry Newman Beecher Poems)
I read your testimony and I thoughthere is the man perfected that I knewand reverenced next him who gave me ...
I had a hippopotamus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a hippopotamus; I kept him in a shedAnd fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread.I made him my ...
At a Lecture (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Since mistakes are inevitable, I can easily be takenfor a man standing before you in this room filledwith yourselves. Yet ...
The Shape of Death (May Swenson Poems)
What does love look like? We knowthe shape of death. Death is a cloudimmense and awesome. At first a lidis ...
Chaos Crystallising (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Give it only time enough, Every thing shall find its place; Every creature wins its race, Though the course be rough.All is not ...
The Phantom’s Touch (Patience Worth Poems)
I recall a touch, which frequently fell upon me,A chilling touch as though the shroudOf Eternity had swept me.Well I ...
Each One Of Us (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Man! weak insect, poor and proud,Atom, lost amid the crowd,Ever pushing on through lifeBuffeted by sinful strife,—Man! mere drop of ...
I Am Beside Thee (Patience Worth Poems)
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
The Profound Definitive Meaning (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawnsIn the content seen not even an atom existsA seer and seen ...
The Awakening (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
When your beaming eye breaksEnraptured and trembling,Like straying string musicThat brooded, that slumbered,Bound to the lyre,Up through the veilOf holiest ...
Twenty Million (Judita Vaiciunaite Poems)
A shred of newspaper lies on the table. A common statistic.The people are divided into men and women. There areTwenty ...
The Pilgrim Fathers (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, in a rude hulk, with no cargo save Hope!-With a prow uplifted against the wave,And a mast of Faith! ...
To Eliza (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence!Could they see thee, Eliza, they'd own ...
Faithful Under The Smite (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, mighty God, with faltering lipsWould I proclaim Thy magnitude.Ever have I beheld Thee where man denied Thee.I with mine ...
Epithalamium (Bob Hicok Poems)
A bee in the field. The house on the mountainreveals itself to have been there through summer.It's not a bee ...
My Kinship (Patience Worth Poems)
Am I then but an atom,A whit of spew from the maw of Eternity-Yea nothingness, set in the motion of ...
Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown (John Keats Poems)
Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fearFrom my glad bosom, -- now from gloominessI mount for ever -- not ...
Pessimoptimism (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ye little think what toil it was to buildA world of men imperfect even as this,Where we conceive of Good ...